A Safer Future - Reducing the Impacts of Natural Disasters

Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally.
The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.

Product details

• Authors: Commission on Geosciences Environment an, Commission on Geosciences Environment and Resources, Division On Earth And Life Studies, National Research Council, U S National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1991
• EAN: 9780309045469
• ISBN: 978-0-309-04546-9
• No. of pages: 76
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 279 mm x 6 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology